Christian individualism
Gordon Cheng / 15th April 2008
/ Bible insights
The sin which ‘accountability’ wrongly seeks to address (see my previous post) is individualism, also known as ‘pride’ or possibly ‘greed’, or, more loosely, ‘sin’.
A better antidote to this sin is to go back to the Bible and read Paul's exhortations regarding one another in their context, or similar ones by the other New Testament letter writers. Our churches would be healthier if we made this a regular exercise.
By the way, be careful with those links: they were discovered by typing ‘one another’ the highly useful search function for the ESV Bible website. A quick glance at the first ‘one another’ will tell you why these words need to be read and applied with due regard to their context in the passage!